Who dares trash them?

Tourists, not trash

How a popular tourist destination in Sikkim became the first village in India to ban bottled water and manage the trash left behind by tourists, …

Okhla waste-energy plant gets show cause notice

The Timarpur Okhla Waste Management Company has been given 15 days to respond why they defied the terms of the Environment Clearance

A burning question

Waste-to-energy plants are being touted as a wonder solution for garbage management. But how feasible is this option?

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 21, 2022)

Down To Earth brings you top environmental cases heard in Supreme Court, high courts & National Green Tribunal

CPCB cracks whip on 52 firms for flouting plastic waste rules

This is the first time the pollution watchdog has held companies accountable for not holding their end of the deal

A thin green coating

No check on performance of green-rated buildings; developers pocket government incentives

A year in the life of a law

An assessment of what ails the implementation of e-waste rules

...and not for garbage

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 13, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal  

Urban shit: where does it all go?

India is staring at a big sanitation crisis and needs to reinvent its excreta disposal mechanism

High time to address occupational hazards of waste pickers

Informal waste sector in India carry out most labour-intensive and least rewarding job; most work and live in hazardous conditions with no …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 30, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Inaction in waste management leading to huge economic loss

Huge investment needed to clean billions of tonnes of waste that has been dumped across the world

Redemption from litter

Uttarakhand non-profits have taken responsibility for clearing tourists’ plastic waste

An urban puzzle

India’s population and cities are set to double by 2030. Can it cope with the pressures?

No room for recycling

Give waste pickers their due

The burning question

How power can be cleaned

Any talk of “cleaning” coal to make it less damaging is untenable

Single window dumpyard

India wants global waste. So it gets what it wants  

Court Digest: Major environment hearings of the week (November 8-13, 2020)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal through the …

MoEF withdraws draft amendments to solid waste management rules

Activists say amendments involve use of expensive, regressive and untested technologies for waste disposal

Gujarat hospitals are not disposing of biomedical waste safely: CAG

Only 27 per cent of test-checked government hospitals, health centres are segregating waste; many flout rules by burning the hazardous waste

Waste smart cities

A survey by the Centre for Science and Environment shows how Indian cities are turning over a new leaf in solid waste management

Unreal in pampered India

With NDMC winning the smart city challenge, the contrast between where the government lives and where the rest of the citizens live could not …